# NTSB LAX00LA357: Cessna 182G, N24RE, Fallon, NV, August 24, 2000 - Type: NTSB accident investigation - Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report - Date: August 24, 2000, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC) - Place: Fallon, NV - Coordinates: 39.499805, -118.290023 (estimated) - Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.4998&lon=-118.2900&mi=10 - Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping) - Highest injury: No injuries - Injuries: 2 uninjured - Status: Completed, report January 2, 2002 - Report: Approved by Office Director - NTSB case key (mKey): 50420 - NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=LAX00LA357 - NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/50420/pdf - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX00LA357 ## Probable cause A hard landing by a pilot of a previous flight. Additional causes of the accident were an undershoot that resulted in a hard landing, and the CFI's failure to adequately supervise the flight. ## Sequence of events In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf). - Hard landing, landing - flare/touchdown - proper descent rate - excessive, pilot of a previous flight (cause) - Undershoot, landing - supervision - inadequate, pilot in command(cfi) (cause) - landing gear,tire - ruptured - go-around - initiated, dual student - In flight collision with terrain/water, landing - flare/touchdown - terrain condition - berm (contributing factor) ## Analysis During a simulated engine out procedure the airplane made a hard landing in the overrun area, and the nose landing gear struck a berm on rollout. The student pilot took off again and on the second landing the nose wheel went flat on the landing rollout. The CFI and owner/pilot denied damaging the airplane on their flight. They indicated that the owner's son might have damaged the airplane on the previous flight when the airplane had made a hard landing, and that the airplane had not been properly inspected. ## Factual narrative On August 24, 2000, about 1000 hours Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 182G, N24RE, blew the nose landing gear tire on landing at the Fallon Municipal Airport, Fallon, Nevada. The airplane, owned and operated by the pilot under 14 CFR Part 91, sustained substantial damage. The certified flight instructor (CFI) and the owner/private pilot were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local area instructional flight that departed Fallon at an unknown time and was scheduled to terminate there. No flight plan had been filed. The accident was reported on October 6, 2000, by a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector who was conducting surveillance of a repair station at the Fallon airport and found the damaged airplane. According to information supplied by the repair station, the airplane landed short and bent the nose wheel after it struck a berm on the overrun portion of the runway. After the nose wheel struck the berm, a go-around was initiated. On the second landing, the nose wheel blew out due to the broken wheel assembly. Inspection of the airplane revealed the nose landing gear attach point was broken. In verbal statements to the FAA inspector, the flight instructor and the owner denied damaging the airplane on their flight. Instead, they indicated that the owner's son might have damaged the airplane on a previous flight. In the CFI's written statement to the Safety Board he indicated that he had simulated an engine failure for the student pilot. The airplane was too low and slow on final to make a landing on the runway, and landed hard. The CFI stated that not enough power was applied, and that the damage was unknown until the second landing when the nose tire went flat on rollout. The CFI further indicated a proper inspection of the landing gear was not completed following the previous hard landing. Aviation weather reports for the purported day of the accident show visual meteorological conditions prevailed. ## Aircraft - Registration: [N24RE](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N24RE), registered now, S/N 18255274, built 1964 (OpenAirDocs) - Reported make and model: Cessna 182G - Registry model: [Cessna 182G](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182g) (registry code 2072716) (OpenAirDocs) - Registry engine: [Continental O-470 series](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (registry code 17026, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs) - Category: Airplane - Serial number: 18255274 - Engines: Continental O-470 230 horsepower reciprocating - Damage: Substantial damage - Flight: Instructional, Part 91 - Registered owner: Russell E. Taylor, Sr - Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal - Departed: FLX - Airport: FLX, Fallon Municipal, runway 3, 5,703 × 75 ft, asphalt ## Flight crew As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names. - Pilot; age 44; commercial, flight instructor; airplane ratings: single-engine land, multi-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, valid medical--no waivers/lim.; seat: right; flight hours: 11,000 total, 300 in this make and model, 11,000 as pilot in command, 185 in the last 90 days, 65 in the last 30 days, 1 in the last 24 hours ## Weather - Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day - Wind: variable at 3 knots - Visibility: 10 statute miles - Lowest ceiling: none - Temperature: 167 °F, dew point 99 °F - Altimeter: 30.00 inHg - Observed at: RNO, 55 nm away ## FAA reports on this event (1) The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs). - [Accident 20000824038669A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000824038669A), Aug 24, 2000: Cessna 182G, Fallon, NV, Substantial damage. (-23) On August 24, 2000, [privacy data omitted] a flight instructor based at Fallon Municipal Airport, Fallon, NV, was giving flight instruction in a Cessna… From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.